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Using frames to disambiguate prepositions

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Diana Villanueva,

Alma-Delia Cuevas-Rasgado,

Adolfo GuzmáN-ArenasAuthors Info & Claims

Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal, Volume 40, Issue 2

Pages 598 - 610

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2012.07.061

Published: 01 February 2013 Publication History

Abstract

In natural language processing (NLP), disambiguation is the procedure used to solve name conflicts of polysemic concepts (different meanings); in fact, phrase disambiguation is a problem not totally solved in NLP. Several disambiguation types exist; for instance, noun disambiguation (bank is a word with several meanings) or when a word is both used as a noun and as a preposition. Work herein reported describes an algorithm and its implementation to disambiguate prepositions in Spanish phrases; some of them are: a {to} (Translation to English are in bold for explanation purposes; they give only one of the senses of the Spanish word, which usually have multiple meanings.), ante {before}, bajo {under}, cabe {fits}, desde {from}, contra {against}, en {in}, por {by}, segun {according to}, sin {without}, entre {between}, so {under}, con {with}, hacia {towards}, sobre {about}, hasta {until}, de {of}, tras {after}, para {for}. This tool will be used in a text analyzer (being built) that converts a text document to its corresponding ontology representation, with the goal of allowing another program to use the information to answer non trivial questions (**).

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Yu JYuan LZhang TFu JCao YLi SXu X(2023)A Filter-APOSD approach for feature selection and linguistic knowledge discoveryJournal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems: Applications in Engineering and Technology10.3233/JIFS-22271544:3(4013-4028)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.3233/JIFS-222715
Yu JHong WQiu CLi SMei D(2016)A new approach of attribute partial order structure diagram for word sense disambiguation of English prepositionsKnowledge-Based Systems10.1016/j.knosys.2015.12.01495:C(142-152)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2016
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Dittrich AVasardani MWinter SBaldwin TLiu F(2015)A Classification Schema for Fast Disambiguation of Spatial PrepositionsProceedings of the 6th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on GeoStreaming10.1145/2833165.2833167(78-86)Online publication date: 3-Nov-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2833165.2833167

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